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I went back and re-read your posts on this subject but still didn't see what makes the group, whatever size it really is, a veterans organization. Just some Air Force vets coming together to endorse a political candidate for political office doesn't cut it with this former combat veteran who happens to know what one should actually resemble.

Yeah, well, I'm a combat veteran as well,(Vietnam 68-69) but obviously that doesn't necessitate good reading or cognitive skills.

John Brieden is a former Army Ranger and Jay Kimbrough is a Marine Corps combat veteran of Vietnam and a Purple Heart recipient. Whatever your fantasy is about "some Air Force vets coming together", hopefully I've dispelled that errant notion. As far as asking your buddies at the VFW, did you really expect them to have a clue? The boys down at my local Post and everyone I've ever visited in my travels are not too busy talking politics or the attributes of recently formed veterans groups. They're mostly about drinking, hunting, fishing, and sports, interspersed with general griping and other irrelevent BS. And for the most part, good and honorable men.

What's obvious to me is that you want a reason to diminish anything associated with Rick Perry. So be it, have at it. Just don't hide behind this BS about whether or not a veterans group meets your expectations. "Veterans for Rick Perry" is exactly what it claims to be, a group of veterans who are advocates for Rick Perry. They don't claim to be the Wounded Warrior Project, and it's disingenous of you to demand that they must be such an organization in order to be legitimate.

[Ron H.]

Look, apparently this endorsement means everything to you since IT has endorsed your man in this dog race. It doesn't mean diddly squat to me. If it had been by a more readily recognizable organization as say the VFW, the DAV or some other major veterans organization then I might sit up and take notice otherwise I probably wouldn't vote for Perry if he were one of the very last candidates around on Primary day since I know his real lackluster background. But you go ahead and vote for him. That's your prerogative as it is mine to NOT vote for him. I too fought for that right.

Many of us around here tried in vain to warn people like you folks about GW 'Bubba' Bush but you/those folks weren't having anything to to do with our warnings. Like Bush, Perry is all packaged up to look and sound like a Compassionate Conservative. Just don't bother looking any further than the gussied up pretty re-packaging lest one be disillusioned as they were with Bush Jr. after his 8 years at damaging this country. Perry is pretty much cut from the same cloth, IMHO.

You failed at trying to convince me so why bother even keep trying. There is absolutely nothing you will ever say that would change my mind unless Perry turned out to be Jesus Christ himself. You want the last word then go ahead and get it out of your system as I've nothing else to say to you on this subject. I've had my say.